Jack Straw Quotes
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,
